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Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine News

Learn about field peas as an alternative third crop, new resources for
Iowa's wine industry, and research to evaluate a new diagnostic approach for
bovine viral diarrhea disease in this month's Agriculture and Veterinary
Medicine News.

Iowa State awards state economic development dollars to nine projects

Officials tell how ISU would spend R&D funds

Iowa State will have $17 million to spend on research and development if the legislature endorses Gov. Tom Vilsack's proposal to give the regents universities $50 million in R&D funds over three years. Officials recently told regents and legislators how they would use those funds.

A supercomputer for Iowa State University

Presenting the research and development power of Iowa's Regent
universities

The Innovation Iowa economic development program sponsored by the Board of
Regents, State of Iowa, will be 4-6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, at the John and
Mary Pappajohn Education Center at 1200 Grand Ave. in Des Moines.

To understand a virus

Motion machines

Architecture 202 students recently designed, built and demonstrated devices that express a motion interacting with an architectural surface. With paint spewing and lights flashing, the motion machines reacted to thinking (shown above) breathing, sit-ups, jumping jacks and more.

In the News

Supercomputing

The Washington Post

Scientists at Iowa State University are using one of the
nation's 10 most powerful university computers to help decipher the corn genome, a
project that could allow them to expand the plant's uses in plastics, fuel
and fiber.